Inventions from Bee Creek Books

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1875. 43D Congress. 2d Session. House of Representatives. Report No. 310. Report from The Committee on Claims regarding the petition of Hall Colby..."that he is the discoverer of certain principles in nautical astronomy of great importance, which he has for more than twenty years made known for the free benefit of the world:...he invented an improved… Read more about this item

1849. February 28, 1849. "The memorial of John B. Emerson, of the city of New York respectfully represents: that on the eighth day of March 1834, he obtained letters patent of the United States of America, for certain improvements in the steam engine, and in the mode of propelling therewith, either vessels on the water or carriages on the land..."… Read more about this item

New York: The Science Company, 1885. With Science Supplement. Articles by Famous Americans: F.W. PUTNAM "Man and the mastodon" (found in Worchester County, Mass.). In Letters to the Editor: ALPHEUS HYATT "Cruise of the Arethusa"; and EDWARD S. HOLDEN "The care of pamphlets". In Science Supplement:" The Nordenfelt submarine boat" with illustration. Other articles: "The International Geological Congress at… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1972. "In collaboration with past and present editors of Popular Science Monthly." 320 pp. Red cloth covers with blue cloth spine, gilt lettering on spine. Corners bumped and rubbed, edges rubbed, wear and fading to spine ends. Interior tight and clean.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Photographs, Illustrations. Size:… Read more about this item

New York: N. D. C. Hodges, 1890. Some Articles: A Steel Pressure-Blower with illustration of one; The Tobacco-Plant; What Stanley Has Done For The Map of Africa with 2 maps: Central Africa, Before Stanley, and Central Africa, After Stanley; Useful Plants in Guatemala; and The Fiske Range-Finder with 6 illustrations. Under Industrial Notes: The Hulin Diary Calendar with an… Read more about this item